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Secondary router acting weird (self.networking)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by tester1121 to c/[email protected]

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(I know that I should have just used a mesh network)

I have a router from my ISP, and it is placed at one end of my house. My Chromecast, printer, and other IoT devices are connected to it. I recently connected another router via Powerline to the other end to get quicker speeds, and to get Ethernet for my PC. However, I can't print off of the second router's network, and I can't use the Chromecast virtual remote. The router shows up as a single device on my ISP router, and none of my other devices connected to it show up.

Do I need to put the router in bridge mode, or do I just need to mess around with the configuration of it?
Will the router support 5GHz still? (My ISP router is only 2.4GHz) \

Second router model: Linksys EA6350

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You want to have your second router in bridge mode. Something like this https://www.linksys.com/gb/support-article/?articleNum=137888

[–] tester1121 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Will this disable 5GHz wifi and the ethernet ports on my Linksys router, and will the Linksys router's control panel be unreachable once in bridge mode?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You should be good. It's simple to reset the router if needed anyway

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It depends on the specifics of the router and configuration, but it doesn't have to. It won't be your "gateway" anymore but it might be accessible on it's own ip. Same with 5ghz no reason it has to be lost

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Your network is behind a second NAT. You need to put your router in bridge mode if you want to have the dhcp and firewall disabled.

Honestly the best answer is to get a dump network switch and plug in all of the devices to it. From there you should configure the WiFi router as a dump AP.

Personally what I did was install openwrt on two devices and then setup roaming with 802.11r

Your router looks like its supported if your feeling brave https://openwrt.org/toh/linksys/ea6350_v3